A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



came to John son of Henry dc Osevill. Cecily his 

 daughter and heiress married Guy de Boys," who 

 was holding the manor in right of his wife in 1350." 

 He died before 1370, in which year Cecily was 

 holding it alone." After her death Munden Furnivall 

 seems to have been held by John and Agnes 

 Durham," who conveyed it in 1389 to Margaret, 

 daughter of Cecily and Guy de Boys, and her 

 husband Robert Dykeswell.* 1 Margaret married 

 secondly Henry Hay ward, 11 and thirdly, before 1419, 

 Walter Pejon or Pegeon." She was succeeded by 

 Thomas Hayward or Howard, her son by her second 

 husband. " Thomas died shortly before 144.7, when 

 the manor of Great Munden was conveyed by 

 trustees to Sir John Fray, chief baron of the Ex- 

 chequer." He also made himself secure against the 

 claims of various heirs of Thomas Howard." In 

 1460, however, he was obliged to sue Simon Rode 



mi Jo; 



J« 



Great Munde. 



vife for illegal entry by force into the 

 1 that she was the heir of 

 Mabel Grimbaud, one of the sisters of Walter de 

 *hom the manor had been entailed 

 , of Henry de Osevill. 36 The claim 

 ssfnl, for Sir John Fray died seised of 

 in the following year." His widow 

 ried secondly Sir John Say, held the 

 1 her death in 1478, when it passed by 

 grant of the trustees to her second daughter Mar- 

 garet, the wife of John Leynham or Plomer." Some 

 years later Munden Furnivall came into the possession 

 of Sir William Say (son of Sir John Say by an earlier 

 wife), who had married Margaret Lyn ham's elder 

 sister Elizabeth, then the widow of Sir Thomas 

 Waldegrave. Though he is said to have acquired it 

 by purchase, 1 * it is thus possible that it came to him 

 by failure of Margaret's heirs. He died seised of it 

 in I 519," and it descended in the same manner as his 

 other lands (v. s. Benington) in Hertfordshire until 

 it came 10 the Crown upon the death of Lady Anne 

 Parr.' 1 



In 1572 the manor was leased by the Crown to 

 William Lord Burghley for a term of thirty-one 

 years from 1 ; g 5 

 Robert Cecil in 16 

 latter died in [612 

 Munden to Willi, 

 remainder to Jamei 

 Robert Stanley, hi 



i-hkh lea 

 for 1 



1 the 



In 1628 i 

 others," a: 



twenty-one years.' 1 The 

 bequeathing the lease of Great 

 n, Earl of Cranbourne, with 

 mes Lord Stanley and his wife and 

 his brother." It reverted to the 

 expiration of the Tease, and is said to 

 ited to Charles Prince of Wales in 

 grant does not seem to be extant.' 5 

 i granted to Edward Ditchfield and 

 said to have been sold later to Edward 



Arris." Thomas Arris, his son," sold the manor in 

 1 700 to Robert Hadsley,** whose son Robert sold it to 

 Sir John Jennings in 17*3." 

 In 1 789 it was purchased 

 from his son George Jennings 

 by William Baker of Bayford- 

 bury, 51 in whose family it 

 descended 1 * until it was pur- 

 chased by Messrs. Paine, 

 Brettell & Porter, solicitors, 

 in 1900. 



The park of Great Munden 

 is first mentioned in 1283, 

 when Gerard dc Furnivall 

 complained that certain per- 

 sons had repeatedly broken 

 his park at Munden Furnivall, 

 hunted therein and carried 

 away deer." In 1 302 the 



<~^6~~ ffibfcw^ 



Am 1 of Bayford- 

 . Party trmint and 

 a grtyhsuni running 



fill, I 



park is described as ha 

 area of 40 acres M ; 

 seems to have been 1 

 leased with the man 



form Flutgate Park," 1 

 It seems to have been 

 In 1275 Gerard 

 appropriated free warren 

 where he ought not to hav 

 ever, William de Kirkeby 

 warren in due form. 1 ' 1 





hlif and 



w fit alt 



lied Fludgate Park, and was 

 ■ to the Cecils under that 

 ursagain in 1723 and also the 

 lich does not occur elsewhere, 

 ibsequcntly disparked. 

 e Furnivall is said to have 

 ■en to himself in Munden 

 had it" ; in 1295, how- 

 received a grant of free 

 grant \ 



id Henry de Osevill and their heirs." 

 In 1397 one John Potter was fined tod. because he 

 ' dug the land of the lord in the free warren of the 

 lord and put nets in the warren and took there 

 conies and carried them away to the damage of the 

 lord.'™ The warren is mentioned again in 1723." 

 In 117; the lord of the manor of Munden 

 Furnivall possessed view of frankpledge, gallows and 

 amendment of the assize of bread and ale. s * John de 

 Kirkeby, Bishop of Ely, claimed there in 1287 

 pillory, tumbrel, infangentheof and outfangentheof in 

 addition, 61 His brother held view of frankpledge at 

 Whitsuntide and courts every three weeks. M View of 

 frankpledge is mentioned in connexion with the manor 

 in a deed of 172 3." False imprisonment in the stocks 

 was complained of against the bailiff of Sir William 

 Say early in the reign of Henry VIII. * The lord 

 also possessed the liberty of a pinfold for sheep. 67 

 There was a mill in Great Munden in 1086. 8 * A 

 windmill is mentioned in 1290™ and after.'" There 

 is still a windmill in the south of the parish, a little 

 to the east of the road from Little Munden. 





17 Ct. R. portf. 178, no. 7. 



18 Ibid. no. 8. 



w Ibid. no. :o; Early Chan 



sP/ea*. 399. 



"Clos 



109. 



II, n 



. 7 Hen. V, 



" Cat. Pat. 

 " Ibid.; Chan. Inq.' 

 10. 19 ; 4 Hen. IV, no 

 n Wralleslty, P;d. from ihi Pita IL 399. 

 "And. D. (P.R.O.), D 4 6 S . 

 " Feet of F. Hem. 26 Hen. VI, 



l 1 & 4 Phil. 

 'Ibid. i S Eli 

 3 Col. S. P. thm. 

 * P.C.C. 49 Fern 

 5 Chauncy, op. c 

 " 4 Chas. I, 



pt. 1 



isc. Bit!. 578, fol. 

 Hil. 33 Hen. Villi 

 lary, pt. xii. 



" Chau 

 18 Ibid. 



'17. ' 

 B Wroti 



f F. Hens. Mich. [ 



* Pat. 15Eliz.pt. 



* Close, 10 Gen. 1 



* R«. HunJ. (Rec. 



* Chart R_ 14 Edw. 



* Ib : cf. 13 Edw. II, ] 

 "> Ct. R. portf. 178, 

 11 Clo.e, 10 Gen. I, | 

 11 Ret. Hund. (Ree. C 

 ;l Atii/e R. 325, m. 

 ' A Chan. Inq, p.m. ;i 

 ■■' Clo.e, 10 Geo. I, ] 



i ; 7 Ja- 

 , pt. xi, 1 

 Com.), i 



, pt.il 



esley, Ptd.fram thtPltu R. 399. 

 Inq. p.m. 1 Edw. IV, no. 28. 

 [S Edw. IV, no. 45. 



n. VIII, bdl . 

 «, ioC*o. 1, 



